Below you will find example sentences with "drives past". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.
Drives Past in a sentence
Corpus data
- Displayed example sentences: 20
- Discovered as a combination around: drives
- Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 9
- Phrase length: 2 words
- Average sentence length: 20 words
Sentence profile
- Phrase position: 9 start, 10 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis
- The phrase "drives past" has 2 words and usually appears in the middle in these examples. The average sentence has 20 words and is mostly made up of statements.
- Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as a car drives past, a truck drives past shipping containers, half, guard and night stand out.
- In the phrase index, this combination connects with past decade, past year, hard drives, hard drives and disk drives, linking the page to nearby combinations.
Example types with drives past
This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:
Even if a car drives past. (6 words)
Jalen Brunson drives past Cleveland Cavaliers’ Caris LeVert. (8 words)
Deer Lakes’ Wayne Love drives past Derry’s Colin Bush during their game Tuesday. (14 words)
A truck drives past shipping containers at Aheer Transportation in Delta, B.C., on July 13, where preparations to return to work were underway after a tentative deal was reached to end a strike at the ports. (37 words)
Every day, Vélina Élysée Charlier drives past barricaded neighborhoods and frequently sees dead bodies lying on the street, she said, a result of score-settling between gangs and vigilantes in Haiti’s capital. (33 words)
Narbonne forward Marcus Adams drives past a Long Beach Jordan defender during a game in the Ryse Williams Pacific Shores Tournament at Redondo High on Wednesday November 30, 2022. (29 words)
Example sentences (20)
A car brandishing the EFF flag drives past Jabulani Mall on Sunday evening ahead of Monday’s planned National Shutdown.
An Oxford University Transit bus drives past a water tower on the campus of the University of Mississippi.
A truck drives past shipping containers at Aheer Transportation in Delta, B.C., on July 13, where preparations to return to work were underway after a tentative deal was reached to end a strike at the ports.
Chicago Bulls guard Zach LaVine drives past Pistons guard Jaden Ivey during the second half Saturday in Detroit.
Clippers forward Norman Powell drives past Denver Nuggets forward Bruce Brown during the second half on Friday night at Crypto.com Arena.
Every day, Vélina Élysée Charlier drives past barricaded neighborhoods and frequently sees dead bodies lying on the street, she said, a result of score-settling between gangs and vigilantes in Haiti’s capital.
He stated that every time he drives past Barbican he remembers me and how I styled him.
Izaiyah Romero (11) drives past Kaden Cox (55) to score a nice layup in the Knights’ victory.
Jalen Brunson drives past Cleveland Cavaliers’ Caris LeVert.
Narbonne forward Marcus Adams drives past a Long Beach Jordan defender during a game in the Ryse Williams Pacific Shores Tournament at Redondo High on Wednesday November 30, 2022.
USC’s McKenzie Forbes drives past the Long Beach State defense in the second quarter of the Trojans’ 85-77 win Thursday.
A van drives past a church in Kostyantynivka, eastern Donetsk region, on December 10, 2024, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Boston Celtics guard Jaylen Brown drives past Lakers guard Austin Reaves during the first half on Thursday night in Boston.
Deer Lakes’ Wayne Love drives past Derry’s Colin Bush during their game Tuesday.
Even if a car drives past.
People demonstrate as French President Emmanuel Macron’s motorcade drives past in in Noumea, New Caledonia, May 23, 2024.
The Milwaukee Bucks’ Damian Lillard drives past the Clippers’ Paul George during the first half on Monday night in Milwaukee.
A car with Donald Trump drives past supporters outside Walter Reed in Bethesda, Maryland, on 4 October.
A police cruiser drives past a fire in the middle of the street in downtown Los Angeles Friday night.
Brooklyn Nets’ Taurean Prince (2) drives past Los Angeles Lakers’ Kyle Kuzma during the second half of an NBA basketball game Thursday, Jan.